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I wish my IDE could interpret a special comment like

    /* img "doc/uml.png" */

or something similar that it would use to display an image inline with my source code. There are so many times I've created a FSM diagram with graphviz + dot that I'd love to include inline.

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Isn't that a feature of TempleOS? You can embed any content in any file, including images in source code?

Might be time to switch to the one true OS.

Emacs?

Not just images. They can be animations too!

Emacs can do it, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15759901/insert-a-pictur...

I'm sure you can find similar extensions for VSCode or Atom.

JetBrains IDEs can do almost this using the PlantUML plugin (see my comment above): you just have to write a little graphml code to show the PNG. It's not inline with the source code, but in a separate pane. But a documentation generator (such as Sphinx) could show the image inline, with a little plugin.

I have done this with a documentation generator (doxygen) but I want it in Visual Studio. There is a plugin for it, but it's pretty buggy. It would be nice if it were a core capability.

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